Boutique of the week: Kickslove, Deptford, London SE8

In a redeveloped railway archway in Deptford, Kickslove is a women’s-only streetwear and trainer boutique

If you ran your eyes along the feet of the front row at fashion week, you used to be greeted with a series of spike-heeled satin mules, sock boots and sandals. Now any fashion editor worth her salt knows that a pair of trainers is the infinitely cooler alternative.

Women and their trainers is something Lisa Barlow-Weber has spent a lot of time considering. She worked at Foot Locker when she was 16, then for Nike as a merchandiser, and in 2016 opened Kickslove, one of the capital’s few shops selling only women’s trainers. “Every other major city across Europe has a women’s-only store for sneakerheads. London didn’t, so I opened my own,” she says.